White House and Department of Homeland Security leaders will meet this week to debate safety procedures round occasions involving President Donald Trump after Saturday’s taking pictures at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
The incident has raised safety questions, together with over the line of succession. NCS previously reported that some Secret Service officers have been reluctant to have each the vice chairman and the president attend occasions collectively off the White House grounds.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday there have been conversations earlier than the dinner about designating a survivor, as is commonplace at occasions akin to the annual State of the Union that the majority Cabinet members attend. “But there were several members of the Cabinet in the line of succession who did not attend for various personal reasons,” so it wasn’t obligatory, Leavitt mentioned.
NCS analyzed — by images, movies and outreach to Cabinet workplaces — who was and was not current at the Washington Hilton resort in Washington, DC, on Saturday: